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Science fiction writers are always popular to turn to for predictions on what future technology holds for the world. Issac Asimov went on record in 1964 with some pretty dead-on predictions for 2014, and some that weren’t quite as dead-on….

When you look around you, it’s amazing just how much technology really is there in absolutely everything we do. For instance, the famous ball drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. When I went hunting for a video for…

With Christmas almost upon us, I wanted to dig up something along that theme and stumbled across this gem of a radio commercial from the 1950s. Who wouldn’t want to carry a “personal radio” around that was larger than most…

We hear a lot of hyperbole from tech fans about how a product they dislike will be a disaster, or could bring a company down, but what about examples of products that nearly did that? What about the Edsels of…

Someone at Warner Brothers really needs to go through the companies servers and do a clean out. Space Jam was a 1996 movie that attempted to shoe horn the popularity of Michael Jordan in with the Looney Tunes. How, or…

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked off in 1924, but it wasn’t until TVs became popular in the 1950s and 1960s that it became a staple of the holiday across the entire United States. The history of the televising of…

Who would have thought 19 years ago that we would be seeing the launch of the PlayStation 4? Certainly not me. I can remember the first time I heard about the PlayStation, I couldn’t for the life of me figure…

I try very hard to never repeat a subject in the Flashback Friday series, but there are times that call for it, and the closure of the last 300 corporate Blockbuster Video stores is one of those times. Back in…